"The Xenen LightStrike" Design Summary & Analysis - Draft 4
Students from Case Western Reserve University claimed in a report, "5 Medical Robots..." (2020), that there are several advantages to designing medical robots for use in healthcare. All the robots in this list are currently implemented in hospitals to "improve the quality of care and outcome." In their specifically designed fields, the da Vinci Surgical robot and the CyberKnife both provide the highest precision available to their users. The da Vinci robot is mainly used for routine surgery by surgeons, while the CyberKnife is specially used to treat tumors in much-extended areas, especially areas where surgery is complex. The Xenex Germ-Zapping robot is another example of improving "quality". It is intended to disinfect hospital rooms automatically within minutes, effectively killing a wide variety of infectious bacteria in the process. The following medical robot, the PARO, which is an interactive therapeutic robot that comes in a form of an adorable an